{"id":15942,"date":"2012-03-05T01:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2013-03-11T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:17:36","slug":"londels-new-lounge-opens-at-2131-frederick-douglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=15942","title":{"rendered":"Londel’s New Lounge Opens at 2131 Frederick Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"

By NativeNewYorker<\/a><\/p>\n

Londel Davis, longtime Harlemite & owner of Londel’s Supper Club<\/a> at 2620 \"\"<\/a>Frederick Douglass, has opened his new “L” Lounge about 25 blocks south of his well known restaurant. There is no sign on the door yet but friends who attended a pre-opening private event say the lounge is named for the long since dismantled 8th Avenue elevated train, pictures of which adorn<\/p>\n

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8th Avenue El, May 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

this classy new addition to Harlem’s “Gold Coast”. Fans of Londel’s unique blend of “continental, Cajun, and traditional Southern cuisine” will still have to travel to the 139th Street establishment – his new place is a bar lounge, not a restaurant.<\/p>\n

(Historical image courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Gallery<\/a>, Image ID 1811327<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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For more information about Harlem please also see HarlemTrends<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By NativeNewYorker Londel Davis, longtime Harlemite & owner of Londel’s Supper Club at 2620 Frederick…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42330384,179,9989,384,124718155,39464011,34961255,3225,40273153],"tags":[77809719,15441584,124718158,7918627,81528462,59829300,124718181,21992,35663774,11682484,4864398,891594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15987,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}